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| Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA) | Release Date: November 16, 2018 |
Starring:
Anneika Rose, Helena Bonham Carter, Hilary Swank, Jeffrey Tambor, Johan Heldenbergh, Jonathan Kerrigan, Michael Culkin, Richard Riddell, Tim Ahern, Tim Plester, Vincent Riotta
Summary:
55 Steps is based on the inspiring true story of Eleanor Riese, a mental illness patient herself, who brings a class action suit to give competent mental patients the right to have a say in their medication while they're in a hospital, and Colette Hughes, the lawyer appointed to her case.
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Nov 28, 2018
As Eleanor, Bonham Carter delivers a sweetly oddball performance playing a high-maintenance but fiercely determined grouch who is mostly impossible to like. Swank, for her part, is no picnic either: A former psychiatric nurse who discovered law later in life, her Colette is a largely charmless workaholic.
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Nov 13, 2018
The filmmakers’ choice to focus so heavily — and, unfortunately, dully — on the odd-couple friendship between the tightly-wound, workaholic Hughes (Hilary Swank) and the brashly spirited Riese (Helena Bonham Carter) instead of on the bigger-picture legal wranglings and wider effects of the landmark lawsuit against a San Francisco hospital may point to the chapter’s cinematic limitations.
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Nov 15, 2018
Oct 7, 2020
(Mauro Lanari)
Well-established formula weighed down by harangues and sermons.
Well-established formula weighed down by harangues and sermons.
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